Tony Angelo has been withdrawn by the Race Marshal. Tony didn’t break any rules, but the officials felt they were acting in the best interests of Tony and his puppies. While Tony is officially listed as a rookie, this is his third attempt to complete the race. Tony’s puppies are all AKC registered Siberians.

The leaders (Hugh, Brent & Allen) have arrived for an 8-hour mandatory rest stop at Braeburn before the dash to the finish tomorrow.

The Current Standings at 10:00PM CST (8:00PM PST):

At Braeburn
1 Hugh Neff (22)
2 Brent Sass (9)
3 Allen Moore (4)
Beyond Carmacks
4 Matt Hall (15)
Beyond Pelly Crossing
5 Ed Hopkins (3)
6 Torsten Kohnert (12)
7 Tom Frode Johansen (19)^R
Beyond Dawson
8 Yuka Honda (6)
9 Seth Barnes (17)^R
10 Mike Ellis (2)
11 Dave Dalton (8)
12 Laura Neese (1)^R
13 Andrew Pace (18)^R
14 Luc Tweddell (21)
15 Cody Strathe (14)
16 Paige Drobny (5)
17 Rob Cooke (20)
18 Tore Albrigtsen (11)^R
19 Sébastien Dos Santos Borges (23)^R
20 Gaetan Pierrard (7)^R
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Why are you being hustled by street vendors to buy sad and drooping former roses, vegetative matter that missed the cut for bouquets, or were too late to the hospital?

Blame Esther A. Howland (1828 – 1904) of Worcester, Massachusetts. Her guilt is writ large by the Greeting Card Association’s Esther Howland Award for a Greeting Card Visionary. She imported the concept to the US from Britain to bolster her father’s stationery store in 1847.

Of course, it wasn’t long before the stationers had infiltrated school boards and imposed the now mandatory exchange in the classroom to push the low end product of Asian children and prisoners.
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